Hull University Union - The Structure of The UEC & The Charities Act

The Structure of The UEC & The Charities Act

HUU is a registered charity and the supervisory body is the Charities Commission.

Some changes have already come into effect, for example, the trustee structure has already changed. There are now four student trustees, four external trustees and all six sabbatical officers are also trustees.

The Union Executive Committee structure changed as of 29 June 2010. There will be 6 full-time sabbatical officers. The new UEC is (* denotes trustee of Hull University Union):

2012-13 Sabbatical Team

• President - Magid Mah*
• Vice-President (Welfare) - Kora-Lee Holmes*
• Vice-President (Education) - Victoria Winterton*
• Vice-President (Sport) - Paul Harsent*
• Vice-President (Community) - Pippa Eveleigh*
• Vice-President (Scarborough Campus) - Chris Long*
• Chair Campaigns and Democracy - Richard Brooks
• Chair International Students Association - Joy Makasi
• Chair Societies - Leigh Debenham
• Chair Media - Hannah Pomfret
• Chair RAG - Mark Tatton
• Chair Black Students - Chubike Okide
• Chair Disabled Students - Daryl Jones
• Chair LGBT - Joe Taylor
• Chair Women's Committee - Rachel Wilcocks
• Scarborough Welfare Officer - Samantha Farley
• Scarborough Education Officer - Jamie Lawrence
• Scarborough Sports Officer - John Robert Heathley
• Scarborough Community Officer - Luke Rothery
• Scarborough Campaigns Officer - Loraine Tinsley

The new Media & Volunteering position is a merger of the sabbatical duties of the HUSSO Chair and the VP (Media & Communications). The VP (Media & Communications) was the editor of Hullfire, but because the workload of the new role is greater, the editor has now become a student role. Societies were the responsibility of VP (Finance & Democracy), (now restored to the title of Union Secretary & Treasurer) but that has now become part of the remit of VP (Media & Volunteering).

Chair ISA was a position that already existed, but it was a student voluntary role. As of 07/08 it will still be a student position, but it will also be on the Union Executive Committee. It will be the same with Chair Campaigns. The Chair HUSSO became a part-time role, still with a place on the UEC.

Because of the nature of the cross campus elections for the Executive posts, it is in theory possible for any member of the Union to stand for any post, and thus in the past this was capable of creating the anomaly that the VP-S&L (Cross Campus election) could have been held by a separate person from the post of President of the Athletic Union (Internal AU election) and the VP-SCA could have been separate from Chair HUSSO. While changes to the constitution/standing orders have removed the possibility of this happening for Chair-HUSSO, it is still theoretically possible to have the posts of Vice President Scarborough held by a student who is neither a resident of the town, or undertaking a course at the campus. This happened in the elections of 2010 and 2011 when Matthew Jason Brown who graduated from Scarborough two years before, but was undertaking a course on the Hull campus was elected to the post and then reelected the subsequent year.

Over recent years (especially the last 10 years) there has been frequent changes in the roles and titles of a number of the Sabbatical officers, and an increase in their number from 5 to 8, until the recent reduction down to 6, which is still a high number in comparison to other Student Unions.